The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Hali (1992)

Tropical Storm Hali peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between March 28, 1992 and March 30, 1992.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Hali. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
March 28, 1992 to March 30, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 2095 km (1302 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Fastest the center moved
6 kt (7 mph)
Identifier
CP021992

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 28, 06:005.2N 172.2W25 ktTropical depression
Mar 28, 12:005.1N 172.8W25 ktTropical depression
Mar 28, 18:005.2N 173.0W30 ktTropical depression
Mar 29, 00:005.4N 173.3W30 ktTropical depression
Mar 29, 06:005.5N 173.6W30 ktTropical depression
Mar 29, 12:005.7N 173.9W40 ktTropical storm
Mar 29, 18:005.9N 174.2W45 ktTropical storm
Mar 30, 00:006.2N 174.7W40 ktTropical storm
Mar 30, 06:006.7N 175.2W35 ktTropical storm
Mar 30, 12:006.9N 175.4W30 ktTropical depression
Mar 30, 18:007.1N 175.6W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1992

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.